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Klein believes that Tom was hanging out with some friends and they were messing around with a gun trying to scare Tom with it and accidentally shot him and called somebody and decided to get in touch with the sheriff and have him help them get rid of the body and clean up the death. Cline also thinks that Penny Toms mom is hiding something else about tom as well. She doesn't show any emotion and is acting suspicious.

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I don't think that it was a suicide I think that Tom was murdered and that there were a group of people who had something to do with it. I don't think that it would be suicide because the body was found 12 miles away from where the cars was and I don't think that anyone who is planning on committing suicide is going to park their car and take a 12 mile hike before doing so. I think that Sheriff Lewis had something to do with Toms death because he is always trying to change the subject of what everybody else is thinking.

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Many people believe that this was in fact a murder and not a suicide. They believe that there is a killer living in their town because non-locals would not know about the place where Toms body was found.

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Christian feels as though if she had been there for Tom more then maybe nothing would've ever happened to him and he would still be living his life happily. She does not know what happened to tom but she suspects that Sheriff Lewis had something to do with his disappearance.

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In November of 2019 Sheriff Lewis Resigned. He felt as though he was all alone in that nobody that he worked with had his back and they didn't think that he was a good Sheriff. Lewis lived for law enforcement but didn't think that it was worth it anymore.

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-Some people think tom committed suicide because in an interview with the mom she states that there have been suicides in their family in the past.
-The most common belief is that Tom was in fact murdered.
- Some rumors were also spread that he was run through a wood chipper.

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Gregory finds two eye sockets and teeth in a field which ended up being Tom Browns body. They found it near Lake Marvin Rd. close to where toms backpack was.

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Tom's Durango was another huge huge part of this case. When authorities searched Tom's car, they said there was "the smell of death". The car was abandoned. They found shoe prints around the car and they also found blood. The blood was on the drivers door, a friends credit card, and a gun.

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Tom's big brother (Tucker) refused to take the polygraph test, his family agrees with his decision by saying that these test are "untrue" and he doesn't "want to fall into their trap". He attends OSU and has a lot going on, he didn't want this to get around and for him to get constantly questioned. authorities believe that he may have planted Tom's phone and been the reason the phone mysteriously appeared.

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One of the major key evidence in this case was Tom's cell phone. Tom's phone was supposedly last pinged at the Canadians high school football stadium. Although this may seem to be very important to get one step closer to the answer of where Tom is, authorities say that this clue isn't that helpful because Canadian is pretty small and if you were to anywhere in the town it would say the same thing.

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Tom enjoyed wearing adult diapers for what reason nobody knew. Toms ex girlfriend says he was hiding that secret from her for quite a while. His mother has also caught Tom wearing these diapers whenever he was a little bit younger. This may have been one of the many things Tom seemed to be ashamed of, thus leading him to his mysterious disappearance.

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-Phil Klein had a girlfriend who overheard a conversation and saw a text message from Nathan Lewis that said "We did it" and "We killed them."
-Toms backpack was found 6.7 miles from the truck. The backpack was moldy, and had been there for a while.
-The dog smells "Death in the car"
-Christian was having numerous phone calls with Nathan McGuire who was friends with Tom's friend who wanted to run away.
-January 12, 2018 had opened a phone that belonged to Tom.

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Tom's mother, Penny, was upset to hear that tom wore adult diapers. She also said that she thinks suicide is a possibility for the disappearance. Penny hired a private investigator named Phil Klein and requested that Officer Lewis be taken off the case. Later on Penny is accused of knowing more than she shared about the case. Authorities believe that his mother knows what happened to Tom. Tom's mom says she has no clue what happened to her sons body. She doesn't understand why people are blaming her. Penny also states that if Tom did come out as gay to her that she would have a talk with him about sin which makes sense why if he was gay he wouldn't want her to know.

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One of the Canadian Sheriffs "We know for a fact that Tom ran away to colorado and the sheriff denies accusation. There was another rumor that Jeff (Michael's Father) had a romantic relationship with tom and had his son kill Tom. Jeff committed suicide and people believed that this was related to Toms case. Jeffs wife denied all accusations and said that Jeff was genuinly depressed.

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An investigator Phil Klein from Houston, Texas was suspicious that tom was homosexual. Cline believes that someone from his school may have known what happened to Tom. Michael told the police that he (Michael) smoked and sold marijuana. Chris who played football for the school was considered a suspect since he had been charged with assault in the past. Chris was in jail for 100 days since he broke his probation.

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Toms friends Michael and Caleb were hanging out and driving around on "Toms Route" around town and around 8 p.m. he decided it was time to go home. He didn't seem sad or upset. But he was late for his curfew and never even showed up back home.

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Tom quit the football team and broke up with his girlfriend and didn't seem like he was sad or upset about this.

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Tom Brown an 18 year old High schooler who attended Canadian High was reported missing after not coming home after a nigh out with friends on November 23 of 2016.